Posted on 12/11/2016 12:00:17 PM PST by jazusamo
Under new rules put forth by the Obama administration, it’s now considered discriminatory for companies in the U.S. to require that employees speak English, but it’s OK to require that workers speak a foreign language.
The new enforcement guideline is meant to crack down on “national origin discrimination” in the workplace, because according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the American workforce is “increasingly ethnically diverse.”
“The increased cultural diversity of today’s workplaces presents new and evolving issues with respect to Title VII’s protection against national origin discrimination,” the EEOC writes. “This enforcement guidance will assist EEOC staff in their investigation of national origin discrimination charges and provide information for applicants, employees, and employers to understand their respective rights and responsibilities under Title VII.”
So how did this rule come about? Judicial Watch breaks it down:
Two years ago, the administration laid the foundation for the new measures by suing a private American business for discriminating against Hispanic and Asian employees because they didn’t speak English on the job. The case involved a Green Bay Wisconsin metal and plastic manufacturer that fired a group of Hmong and Hispanic workers over their English skills. Forcing employees to speak English in the U.S. violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the EEOC claimed in its lawsuit. That’s because the Civil Rights Act protects employees from discrimination based on national origin, which includes the linguistic characteristics of a national origin group. Therefore, the EEOC argued, foreigners have the right to speak their native language even during work hours at an American company that requires English.
Also included in the rules are new discrimination categories such as using Social Security requirements to screen applicants and relying on “word-of-mouth recruiting,” which the EEOC states could “magnify existing ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity in a workplace and result in the exclusion of qualified applicants from different national origin groups.”
According to Judicial Watch, the enforcement guidelines are another example of the Obama administration “strong-arm[ing] businesses and government agencies into adopting [their] leftist agenda and inflated standards of political correctness.”
If this is a new EO take it out.
The way I see it is this: if it originated in the obamanation regime - ignore it.
So our heavy equipment operators don’t need to learn English or be able to read the manuals? Look out when you are walking through a warehouse or freight yard!!
He’s right, it isa discriminatory, and I have absolutely no problem with it.
I am looking forward to the time when the Obama name is totally erased from our national memory.
President Trump should enact an Executive Order on January 20th stopping all printing and translating for select groups. If the liberals Schumer and Pelosi don't like it -tell them to stfu- you lost the election.
Wait? What?!
What are the requirements for a green card?
IMO, this will mean only naturalized (need to speak English still, no?)\Citizens will be filling the job roles...until the EEOC\Fedzilla begins to crack down on THAT too.
Those thinking DJ will do anything to reverse course are some pie-in-sky dreamers; nothing will change until govt is whittle down to the bone...and I just don’t see him (able) doing all that much to reverse the Socialist course we’ve been on for 100yrs. Just my $.02
Under new rules put forth by the Obama administration.
You are all fired as of January 21st, stick this and other bills up your a##Es
So what should they speak? klingon?
So what should they speak? klingon?
The open borders have created a de facto caste system where non-English speakers tend to be heavily represented at the bottom. Here in NJ (where we lost about 350,000 white people over the last decade, while importing even more Hispanics and Asians), finding English speakers is getting increasing difficult. There is job security if you can write a coherent email.
Employers are REQUIRED to use E-Verify to see if the prospective employee is legal & if the name & Social Security number are a match.
Now- Obama says you cannot use a Social Security card to verify the eligibility of an employee?
That definately is a violation of hiring laws in the USA. What does the I-9 form call for? Lots of information...and IF an employer doesn’t properly use an I-9 form, that employer can be fined $5000 for every I-9 that is done wrong.
How many ways can Obama attack businesses in the USA?
IF this pass Congress? OR is it one of Obama’s EO’s? The article isn’t clear on that point.
No matter which-— Trump needs to end this madness.
If they decline to offer us the courtesy of speaking American English, why should we offer them the courtesy of gainful employment?
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